Theme & Variations

SUNDAYS @ 2PM

Theme & Variations introduces a new topic each week, presenting a wide range of music associated with that theme. Drawn from a millennium of Western classical music, the selections are an eclectic mix of familiar favorites and rarities. Theme and Variations is produced locally in Discover Classical's studios by host Joe Law.

5/11

Today’s program explores the partita form, with examples by J. S. Bach, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Irving Fine, Franz Krommer, Johann Pachelbel, Antonio Rosetti and William Walton.

 

5/18

You're invited to a ballet matinée this week, with excerpts from scores by Adolphe Adam, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, Léo Delibes, Alexandre Luigini, Matthias Strebinger and P.I. Tchaikovsky.

 

5/25

There’s time travel in store on this week’s program. You’ll hear music composed, premiered and/or published in1725. It’s by J. S. Bach, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, François Couperin, Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (aka Loeillet of London), Marin Marais and Antonio Vivaldi.